Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions is trying desperately
to make the people of Alabama believe that, even though President Trump hasn’t
said a kind word about him in over three years, he’s totally in the corner of
the MAGA movement. This week, Sessions, who is trying to win back his seat in
the U.S. Senate, sent an open letter to Alabama voters explaining why he had no
choice but to recuse himself from the Russia investigation in 2017 – a move
that immediately and permanently put him on the outs with Trump.

“As the world knows, the President disagreed with me on
recusal, but I did what the law required me to do,” Sessions said in the
letter. “I was a central figure in the campaign and was also a subject of
and witness in the investigation and could obviously not legally be involved in
investigating myself. If I had ignored and broken the law, the Democrats would
have used that to severely damage the President.”

As opposed to the way things turned out, where we saw the
Democrats treat the president with nothing but the highest respect and benefit
of the doubt for the next two years?

“I was the first to endorse President Trump, even when many
thought I was nuts to do so,” Sessions continued. “I helped Trump win
and traveled the country with him, embedded in his campaign. I am one of the
architects of his agenda, and I was pushing his agenda even before he ran for
office. I have remained faithful to the President and his agenda. I have always
stood up for him, and I never backed down, not even for one moment. My
convictions are immovable, built on rock, not sand.”

Sessions’ open letter comes after the president reiterated
his antipathy for him in a “Fox & Friends” interview on Friday.

“Jeff Sessions was a disaster,” Trump said.
“I didn’t want to make him attorney general but he was the first senator
to endorse me so I felt a little bit of an obligation. He came to see me four
times just begging me to be attorney general. He wasn’t, to me, equipped to be
attorney general but he just wanted it, wanted it, wanted it.

“He goes in, he was so bad in his nomination
proceedings I should have gotten rid of him there,” Trump continued. “But every
time the word Russia, he knew less about Russia than I did, he knew nothing
about Russia… Jeff was just very weak and very sad and when the name Russia
was mentioned, just the word Russia, he immediately instead of being a man and
saying ‘this is a hoax,’ he recused himself.”

But if Trump’s comments were brutal, they were nothing
compared to Tommy Tuberville’s. In retweeting the president’s criticism,
Sessions’ Senate race opponent wrote: “President Trump just EXPOSED Jeff
Sessions for what he is: someone who tucked his tail and ran.”

And after Sessions wrote his letter, Tuberville responded: “@jeffsessions
has gone too far this time! He has called President Trump a liar in his latest
statement. It’s time we fire him once and for all! Help me send him a message
today that we do not want a weak-kneed swamp rat representing Alabama.”

Sessions and Tuberville are scheduled to go head-to-head in
a runoff election for the Republican nomination next month.